Independent magazines about design and architecture

Design magazines have the easiest job in print and the hardest standard, because the object has to be as considered as the subject. The good ones clear it. MacGuffin builds every biannual issue around one ordinary object, a bed, a window, a rope, and calls the beat the life of things. Eye has been the reference for graphic design since 1990. Safar works between Arabic and Latin type out of Beirut, printing half the magazine in each language. Kinfolk and Cereal set a visual register that a thousand imitators are still working through. These are the titles that quietly leave studios in someone's bag.